Do you believe your own logic? I am not sure I believe you could
really dare to put it up to your own tests.
Arguing down on line, while internally consistent, does not mean
your logic would be consistent when finally exposed to all of
logicdom.
You asked a question if we truly believed with everything that
there was only one God, then how can there be a right and wrong
God?
Simply put there isn't- there is only one correct notion of God that
everybody should (and I
believe will) finally believe in the end. The real debate is over
which notions of God get as closer to this absolute.
And in this you seem to have it mixed up somehow that wanting to
hold a notion for a particular monotheism destroys theism itself,
which is thinly argued out in your arguments on people co-opting
ideas and writing books.
In the end views on a subject are views from a prespective, but
certainly it cannot be said that all views are equal, but rather to
be judged by the absolute itself. The very fact there is debate is
because there is an absolute to be argued over in the first place,
and the fight is all about if this or that view is better at
grasping this absolute.
In the end your stance is self-defeating in the end. To accept
truth claims as all equally valid would be to dissolve the
absolute itself. It is as good as saying nothing by saying
alot.
And another thing I don't quite get why you don't seem to get. Just
because I may be of an opposing point of view with another person
does not mean that I will have to be totally opposed to them. As far as I
am concerned I am only in opposition when the first principle of non-contradiction
is concerned. We will oppose when one says that Jesus was just a
prophet while we see Him as God. We will oppose when they think
that He never died on the cross while we think he did.
All the same we would agree if we both think that there is only one
true God seperate from his creation as opposed to polytheism and
pantheism. All the same we would hold the same view if we believed
that He created all that we can observed.
That is not hard to understand at all, what is hard to understand
is that while you appeal to the winds of logic at one moment,
telling us to watch for contradictions in our own logic, the very
next you decry objective logic itself by suggesting that to make an
absolute truth claim destroys truth itself.
I believe wrong does not create or exist to itself, it is simply an
lack of right. Right can exist without wrong but wrong cannot
without some right to make it the way it is, that part is clear to
me. So to answer your question, yes we do believe there is One God,
and in no way that belief creates an paradox of
'how-can-there-be-a-right-and-wrong-god'... the paradox as it is,
is purely imaginary and can only happen when one decides to abandon
first principles (and oddly enough use them to construct some other
arguments for the paradox).
